Postbariatric plastic surgery – contemporary trends

Overview

Surgical treatment of obesity is complex solution and include several basic tasks, without which treatment would not be successful. The medical care depends on the level of obesity, surgical treatment is indicated for patients with BMI over 35 with complications, otherwise over 40.

Postbariatric plastic surgery includes set of pre-operative planning and operating procedures that remove skin excess and reduce the health complications associated with it, mainly return the patient to his normal body and return his lost self-confidence and enables its integration into society.

Considerable variability of the condition and the local finding of patients after weight reduction make this part of plastic or general surgery a very heterogeneous area - with spectrum and range of outputs and adaptations after successful treatment of obesity.

Keywords:

obesity, bariatric surgery, body contouring, lower body lifting, armlift, thightlift, gluteoplasty